Access to scientific literature by the conservation community

Open access to the scientific journal literature

None of the advantages of traditional scientific journals need be sacrificed in order to provide free online access to scientific journal articles. Objections that open access to scientific journal literature requires the sacrifice of peer-review, revenue, copyright protection, or other strengths of traditional journals, are based on misunderstandings.

Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009

BACKGROUND The Internet has recently made possible the free global availability of scientific journal articles. Open Access (OA) can occur either via OA scientific journals, or via authors posting manuscripts of articles published in subscription journals in open web repositories. So far there have been few systematic studies showing how big the extent of OA is, in particular studies covering a...

Sharing Science: Enabling Global Access to the Scientific Literature

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Serials crisis Towards free access to scientific literature

Internet has profoundly changed the way scientific research is carried out. This in turn has altered our attitudes concerning access to scientific information. In this article we review a number of recent initiatives in various fields of science. We argue that the scientists in general, and mathematicians in particular, should actively support a transition towards free access to scientific lite...